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An interesting local tool is a kind of spade used on the 

 heathy wastes for cutting heath-turf for burning. It is used 

 as shown (on page 203). The man throws the weight of 

 his body against the heavy cross-handle. It looks a cum- 

 bersome, lumbering thing, but in actual use its weight helps 



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the work. The cutting of heath-sods for fuel is one of the 

 commoners' privileges. 



Bricklayers are now so constantly moving about, often to 



far distant jobs, that there are not nearly so many of the old 



stay-at-home sort, who have that perfect knowledge of local 



ways, but here is one of them (p. 204). He is dead now, but 



for many years I had to do with him od garden and other 



building work. He was nearly stone deaf, left-handed, and 



had lost one eye, but his work was some of the truest and best 



I have ever seen. His whole heart was in it. 



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